Fieldbus Encoders For Advanced Factory Automation
Automation News
14 Jun 2019 Automation News
Lika Electronic is a key player in the manufacturing of encoders and converters with Ethernet and fieldbus technologies and offers one of the most comprehensive ranges in the market. It includes Profinet, Ethernet/IP, EtherCAT, POWERLINK, and MODBUS TCP - with these five protocols making up over 80 percent of the Industrial Ethernet market share globally. Lika also offers standard fieldbus protocols such as CANopen, Profibus, DeviceNet, and MODBUS RTU.
Ethernet encoders from Lika are available in the following series:
- EM-series: low cost 27-bit multi-turn encoders equipped with robust magnetic technology for standard applications
- HS-series: 18-bit single-turn optical encoders for high accuracy requirements
- HM-series: 30-bit high-resolution multi-turn, optical technology, aimed at high-end applications
- XAC-series: single-turn and multi-turn encoders with ATEX certification for use in zones 1, 2, 21, 22.
Wide Range
They are designed in a complete selection of mechanical models with flanges in the diameter 58 and 77 mm: solid shaft version with 6, 8, 9.52, 10 and 12 mm (0.24”, 0.31”, 3/8”, 0.39”, 0.47”) diameter and servo or clamp flange mounting; and blind hollow shaft version with 14 and 15 mm (0.55”, 0.59”) diameter. The full compliance of both the hardware and the software to the protocols, the integration of the complete set of programming functions (position and velocity readout, scaling, preset, code sequence, …), and the advanced diagnostics, even via integrated web server, enable improved performances and allow to achieve robustness, efficiency, versatility, integrability, and productivity that are required by the most advanced industrial systems.
Signal Converters
Lika Electronic further offers the comprehensive series of IF55 converters. IF55 converters allow to integrate encoders with SSI interface, both rotary and linear, into any of the above mentioned Ethernet and fieldbus industrial networks. They are designed in a robust metal enclosure with IP65 protection rate and can be mounted on DIN TS35 rails by means of a clip. They are perfect for retrofitting as well as for installations where space is constricted, for instance they enable to mount compact linear and bearingless encoders or small rotary encoders (Ø36 mm!) in place of bigger Ø58 mm Ethernet/Fieldbus standard encoders.